{"id":33721,"date":"2017-04-06T12:59:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T12:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/at-least-13-new-mass-graves-found-in-drc-amid\/"},"modified":"2017-04-06T12:59:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T12:59:03","slug":"at-least-13-new-mass-graves-found-in-drc-amid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/at-least-13-new-mass-graves-found-in-drc-amid\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 13 new mass graves found in DRC amid rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The United Nations says 13 new mass graves have been found in central Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing the total to 23 amid mounting violence in the area.}<\/p>\n<p>Jose Maria Aranaz, director of the UN human rights office in Kinshasa, said on Tuesday that Congolese authorities would try to determine how many bodies were in the graves.<\/p>\n<p>The mass graves are in a part of central Congo where at least 400 civilians have been killed since August amid a rebellion loyal to former traditional leader Kamwina Nsapu. The UN says at least 434 000 people are internally displaced.<\/p>\n<p>Among the victims were two UN experts \u2014 American Michael Sharp and Swedish national Zaida Catalan \u2014 and their Congolese interpreter. Three others who were with them remain missing.<\/p>\n<p>Source:News 24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The United Nations says 13 new mass graves have been found in central Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing the total to 23 amid mounting violence in the area.} Jose Maria Aranaz, director of the UN human rights office in Kinshasa, said on Tuesday that Congolese authorities would try to determine how many bodies were in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33721"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33721"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}